Patch "USB: serial: garmin_gps: fix memory leak on failed URB submit" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

Patch "USB: serial: garmin_gps: fix memory leak on failed URB submit" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    USB: serial: garmin_gps: fix memory leak on failed URB submit

to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     usb-serial-garmin_gps-fix-memory-leak-on-failed-urb-submit.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From c4ac4496e835b78a45dfbf74f6173932217e4116 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 16:39:41 +0100
Subject: USB: serial: garmin_gps: fix memory leak on failed URB submit

From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>

commit c4ac4496e835b78a45dfbf74f6173932217e4116 upstream.

Make sure to free the URB transfer buffer in case submission fails (e.g.
due to a disconnect).

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/usb/serial/garmin_gps.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/drivers/usb/serial/garmin_gps.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/garmin_gps.c
@@ -1044,6 +1044,7 @@ static int garmin_write_bulk(struct usb_
 		   "%s - usb_submit_urb(write bulk) failed with status = %d\n",
 				__func__, status);
 		count = status;
+		kfree(buffer);
 	}
 
 	/* we are done with this urb, so let the host driver


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from johan@kernel.org are

queue-3.18/usb-serial-qcserial-add-pid-vid-for-sierra-wireless-em7355-fw-update.patch
queue-3.18/usb-serial-garmin_gps-fix-memory-leak-on-failed-urb-submit.patch
queue-3.18/usb-serial-garmin_gps-fix-i-o-after-failed-probe-and-remove.patch
queue-3.18/usb-serial-garmin_gps-fix-memory-leak-on-probe-errors.patch